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Inaugural Addresses Then and Now
… look at U.S. presidential inaugural addresses appeared in these pages in January-February 1977. Jill Lepore, Kemper professor of American history and chair of the history and literature …
“Vermont Strong”
… Tropical Storm Irene reached Vermont on the afternoon of August 28, 2011. In less than a day, the … most devastating natural disaster since the Great Flood of 1927 cut off entire towns, destroyed homes, and damaged …
Issue: September-October 2012
Cambridge Scholars
… Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2018-2019 academic year. Farris Peale, of Washington and Quincy House, a social studies … Harvard Scholar at Emmanuel College; Christian Schatz, of California and Adams House, an environmental science and …
Issue: July-August 2018
Harvard Haves and Have-Nots
… Abraham Jack has written an important, passionate analysis of the conditions and challenges facing students from … Students ), and he is an unusually sensitive interviewer of his subjects, eliciting perspectives that are not always …
Endangered Species Economics
… $125 million on tickets and travel to Stellwagen in 2008. They spent about $2.1 billion to see cetaceans around the … have done for local communities. Manatees attract hundreds of thousands of visitors to Florida each year, where they spend more than …
Issue: May-June 2011
Speak, Memory
… Ongoingness: The End of a Diary is a memoir that makes only one … it, Sarah Manguso ’96, a poet and contributor to Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, and The Paris Review, reflects on her oldest …
Issue: March-April 2015
Toward Top-Tier Teaching
… force on teaching proposed in late January that members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) enter into a “compact” to enhance …
Issue: March-April 2007
“Villanelle” for a Choir
… The sound of a Harvard Commencement, for many, is the sound of choirs singing—exposed, organic, human. "To …
Unsettled Conditions
… The Tuesday of Commencement week, June 6, was radiant—perfect weather for the seniors to march from the Old Yard to Memorial Church, tipping their caps to the statue of John Harvard, for their Baccalaureate service, where …
Issue: July-August 2006
Design Engineering Debuts
… must coastal areas do to adapt to rising sea levels? Could the petroleum-based transportation system be shifted to natural-gas fueling—and how? The faculties of Harvard’s schools of design and engineering and applied … new program comes at a moment when “design thinking” has risen in prominence as an approach to solving …
Football 2018: Harvard 33, Holy Cross 31
… If there is such a thing as a midseason must-win, … night at the Stadium qualified. The Crimson was coming off a demoralizing loss at Cornell and soon would be facing … unveiled yet another in a seemingly inexhaustible supply of sophomore sensations in wide receiver Tyler Adams. The …
Mountain Man
… E.V.C. Moon '52, Ph.D. '68, retired recently, having spent the greater part of his career as an historian of biological and chemical warfare. He continues his …
Issue: January-February 2003
"Roots" and Race
… a New York Times article raised a long-simmering issue: the origins and ancestry of Harvard's black students. The piece described the … of exactly who those black students are." The question arises because, even though in recent years 7 to 9 percent of …
Issue: September-October 2004
Extracurriculars
… A full slate of activities can be found throughout the University this season, ranging from performances of children's theater and French baroque dance music, to …
Issue: March-April 2005
Grover Norquist, America's “Most Powerful Man”?
… The Sunday Boston Globe Magazine's cover story features “The Most Powerful Man in America*”—a profile of Grover Norquist '78, M.B.A. '81, the prominent antitax …